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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Of course the main problem with publishers pricing back list books to match used paperbacks is that it's commercial suicide, before you start frothing at the mouth please read on and feel free to point out the error in my reasoning.
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I won't flame you, honest.
I can agree that publishing the back list to compete with used prices would be, well, tricky. (I don't think its "commercial suicide", but let's agree to disagree on that for a moment.) But in the Faulkner example I keep banging on about, the ebook version is priced $2
more than the
NEW paperback.
This is particularly amusing on the B&N site because they now show all versions and prices, with the cheap paperback version on top.
The ebook -- correct my math if I'm wrong -- costs 25% more than the paperback that is going to eventually get shipped to Half Price and the like at a discounted rate because -- let's face it -- Faulkner isn't exactly flying off the shelves at the "new paperback" prices.
If the ebook were priced the same as the paperback book, I'd see it as one book, two formats, one price for the classic. As it is, I'm right chuffed.
